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Trivia: Director Mark Steven Johnson admitted in a 2023 interview celebrating the film's 20th anniversary that his one big regret was not telling a smaller story. In retrospect, he feels that putting a Daredevil origin story, an Elektra story, court/law-themed story (in the Director's Cut) and a Kingpin story was a little too much for one movie, and some of the material should have been saved for a potential sequel. But as a Daredevil fan, he wanted to put in everything he loved about the comic.

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Trivia: While the logo was introduced a year prior in 2002's "Spider-Man", this is the first film in which the Marvel "flipping pages" logo actually had the flipping pages sound effect added. To this day, 20 years later, that logo and sound effect are still sometimes used in non-MCU Marvel films.

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Trivia: Despite already being very tall at 6'5", Michael Clarke Duncan was often standing on boxes or wearing lift shoes in many of his scenes to add several more inches and make him look almost inhumanly massive. Specific camera angles were also used to make him look larger.

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Trivia: Michael Clarke Duncan was so well-liked in the role of Kingpin that he was asked to reprise the role (in voice-over form) in the 2003 "Spider-Man" animated series on MTV.

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Trivia: Filmmaker and actor Harold Ramis wanted to direct the film as he was a big video game fan and especially a big "Super Mario" fan (even putting a reference to Mario in "Ghostbusters 2"). He took a meeting with the producers but ended up passing on the project, as he had a bad feeling about it.

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Revealing mistake: When Richter's arms get cut off and he falls down the elevator shaft to his death, you can very obviously see the outlines of his real arms inside his shirt when his leather jacket flies up as he falls.

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Continuity mistake: When Valentina grabs the wire in front of her neck and cuts her hands, the blood pattern changes between cuts. (There's suddenly less blood in the second shot, revealing it's a different take.)

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Continuity mistake: When Gabriella is kidnapped, as Amanda approaches the door of the stall she's in, the way she's holding her purse changes between shots. When it cuts to the angle above, the straps go from over her hands to under her hands.

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Visible crew/equipment: When John returns to the clinic to drop off a gift for Gabriele, when the cab pulls up, for a split second, you can see what appears to be the reflection of a crew member (likely part of the camera crew) walking in the green doors right before John opens his door. (It's very hard to see, but you can see it if you pay close attention.)

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Audio problem: When John wakes up after the surgery, his lines "Hemoglobin's normal" and "After that, what happens then?" are obviously dubbed in after the fact. His voice is much louder than he appears to be speaking, revealing that they were re-recorded during post-production.

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Continuity mistake: When John is fixing Carlos' bike wheel, throughout the scene, it is leaning backwards towards John. However, right before he pulls it out of the vice, it is suddenly leaning forwards towards Carlos. (John never pushed it forward.)

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Continuity mistake: When John puts Carlos' bike wheel in the vice, his right hand goes from cranking the vice to holding the side of the wheel as it cuts to Carlos.

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Continuity mistake: After Cecilia points out Carlos and his father to John while showing him around, they begin walking again. John goes from walking a few feet behind Cecilia to right next to her between cuts.

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Continuity mistake: When John is watching the video of Cecilia, he reaches up and puts his right hand against his face. It then cuts to the opposite angle, and suddenly it's switched to John's left hand being against his face.

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Other mistake: When John is watching the video of Cecilia on her website, the video progress bar we've seen twice makes no sense. The first time we see it, it's moving far too fast for the length of the video. Later, we see it a second time, and it has seemingly reset back to the beginning despite it being the same video, and again, it's moving way too fast.

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Stupidity: If you pay attention to John's computer desktop, it's hilariously clear that it's just a mockup made for the movie. There are about a dozen files on his desktop that literally just say "File." Every icon has an unrealistically generic name. Etc.

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Continuity mistake: When the custodian twists the dial to position two on his trap, his fingers go from extended to curled instantly between cuts.

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Continuity mistake: When the custodian grabs the watch out of the drawer at the start of the film, the way he's holding it changes instantly between cuts. (First he's only holding it in his right hand, then he's suddenly holding it with both hands.)

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Continuity mistake: When the custodian parks his vacuum near the hospital bed at the start of the film, in the first shot, his vacuum is near the middle of the bed. The camera cuts, and suddenly it's down near the foot of the bed.

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Audio problem: When the CT technician asks John if he'd like some help getting down, John says "Thank you very much", but you can tell that he's not saying anything and that the line is just dubbed in. (True, the camera is facing away from him, but his jaw and face aren't moving at all.)

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